Answer:
a) a = 1,865 m / s² and b) t = 8.1 s
Explanation:
a) Let's use Newton's second law to find acceleration, we can work the equation in scalar form because displacement and force have the same direction
F = m .a
a = F / m
a = 8.02 10² /4.3 10²
a = 1,865 m / s²
b) We use kinematic relationships in one dimension
vf = vo + at
vf = 0 + a t
t = vf / a
t = 15.1 / 1.865
t = 8.1 s
Perpendicular acceleration:
F = ma
a = 4 / 2 = 2 m/s²
Perpendicular distance:
s = ut + 1/2 at²
s = 0 x 4 + 1/2 x 2 x 4²
s = 16 m
Horizontal distance:
s = ut
= 3 x 4
= 12 m
Total distance = √(12² + 16²)
= 20 m.
What do we know that might help here ?
-- Temperature of a gas is actually the average kinetic energy of its molecules.
-- When something moves faster, its kinetic energy increases.
Knowing just these little factoids, we realize that as a gas gets hotter, the average speed of its molecules increases.
That's exactly what Graph #1 shows.
How about the other graphs ?
-- Graph #3 says that as the temperature goes up, the molecules' speed DEcreases. That can't be right.
-- Graph #4 says that as the temperature goes up, the molecules' speed doesn't change at all. That can't be right.
-- Graph #2 says that after the gas reaches some temperature and you heat it hotter than that, the speed of the molecules starts going DOWN. That can't be right.
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ANSWER:
D) centripetal acceleration.
STEP-BY-STEP EXPLANATION:
When a body performs a uniform circular motion, the direction of the velocity vector changes at every instant. This variation is experienced by the linear vector, due to a force called centripetal, directed towards the center of the circumference that gives rise to the centripetal acceleration.
Therefore, the answer is centripetal acceleration.
